Based on my experience with previous product launch conferences, it’s a safe bet that no more than a dozen of the companies presenting during the combined Demo/TechCrunch launchfest will be truly memorable. But there are plenty of opportunities still to seize market share on the Web, and we will try to find those dozen [...]
Desalination, where water is passed through a filtration membrane, demands a large amount of energy to operate.
GE ups focus on water
Conglomerates likes GE, Siemens, as well as start-ups are developing desalination technologies and other processes for developing waste water for agricultural or industrial use.
The statistics on availability of water are not encouraging: [...]
SAN FRANCISCO–Last week, Microsoft Chief Information Officer Tony Scott was in town for an environmental conference and he took some time out to chat with me about his still relatively new role.
It shouldn’t be that hard. If the technology community works together and develops the right standards and interfaces, one day you will be able [...]
A Facebook employee told me in the days before the launch that it was “a big challenge” to get ready to roll out Facebook Chat to the site’s 67 million members. Because of that, Facebook has opted for a gradual rollout rather than a large-scale launch to all members at one time. The in-browser client, [...]
I’ve embedded a comparison video of old and new below, although it’s in YouTube, which kills some of the graphical differences.
Part of that change is the further utilization of the player hardware, which has made considerable improvements over the years due to GPU-intensive operating systems like
Windows Vista and
OS X Leopard. Runescape HD doesn’t [...]
And those long lines? A total of one million iPhone 3G units were sold. The millionth phone was sold on Sunday.
“The App Store is a grand slam, with a staggering 10 million applications downloaded in just three days,” Apple overlord Steve Jobs said in a release Monday. “Developers have created some extraordinary applications, and the [...]
The problem with today’s creaky electricity system is not a lack of power generation. The problem is traffic jams, Schoettle said.
Electricity grids would be a lot smarter if they just knew themselves better, says Roland Schoettle, the CEO of smart-grid start-up Optimal Technologies.
Optimal Technologies raised $25 million from Goldman Sachs last October, one of several [...]
Previously, IMDb only offered videos in the form of clips and trailers. On Monday, IMDb took a step in the right direction and launched a selection of 6,000 full length films and TV episodes, available for streaming right now. All users have to do is click the big gold “Watch It” button as they are [...]
I’m a bit biased toward Utah, where I live, what with Utah hosting the best snow on the planet, as recently noted in Ski Magazine. But there are plenty of other great places to live. Silicon Valley may be the center of the technology universe, but but you’ve got other, potentially better options. Really.
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Hoping to [...]
One thing you can’t do is expand several stories at once, meaning mobile users will need to have access to a data connection to continue to open up additional stories, something social news site Digg has managed to get around in its
iPhone app by loading up the front page and its story briefs as a [...]
